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package org.scalatest

/**
 * Trait to which custom information about a running suite of tests can be reported.
 * 
 * 
 * An Informer is essentially
 * used to wrap a Reporter and provide easy ways to send custom information
 * to that Reporter via an InfoProvided event.
 * Informer contains an apply method that takes a string and
 * an optional payload object of type Any.
 * The Informer will forward the passed message string to the
 * Reporter as the message parameter, and the optional
 * payload object as the payload parameter, of an InfoProvided event.
 * 
 *
 * 
 * Here's an example in which the Informer is used both directly via info
 * method of trait FlatSpec and indirectly via the methods of
 * trait GivenWhenThen:
 * 
 * 
 *  * package org.scalatest.examples.flatspec.info
 * 
 * import collection.mutable
 * import org.scalatest._
 * 
 * class SetSpec extends FlatSpec with GivenWhenThen {
 *   
 *   "A mutable Set" should "allow an element to be added" in {
 *     given("an empty mutable Set")
 *     val set = mutable.Set.empty[String]
 * 
 *     when("an element is added")
 *     set += "clarity"
 * 
 *     then("the Set should have size 1")
 *     assert(set.size === 1)
 * 
 *     and("the Set should contain the added element")
 *     assert(set.contains("clarity"))
 * 
 *     info("That's all folks!")
 *   }
 * }
 * 
 *
 * 
 * If you run this FlatSpec from the interpreter, you will see the following output:
 * 
 *
 *  * scala> new SetSpec execute
 * A mutable Set
 * - should allow an element to be added
 *   + Given an empty mutable Set 
 *   + When an element is added 
 *   + Then the Set should have size 1 
 *   + And the Set should contain the added element 
 *   + That's all folks! 
 * 
 *
 * @author Bill Venners
 */
trait Informer {
       // TODO: Make sure all the informer implementations check for null
  /**
   * Provide information and optionally, a payload, to the Reporter via an
   * InfoProvided event.
   *
   * @param message a string that will be forwarded to the wrapped Reporter
   *   via an InfoProvided event.
   * @param payload an optional object which will be forwarded to the wrapped Reporter
   *   as a payload via an InfoProvided event.
   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if message or payload reference is null
   */
  def apply(message: String, payload: Option[Any] = None): Unit
  
  /**
   * Provide information and additional payload to the Reporter as the .
   *
   * @param message an object whose toString result will be forwarded to the wrapped Reporter
   *   via an InfoProvided event.
   * @param payload an object which will be forwarded to the wrapped Reporter 
   *   via an InfoProvided event.
   *
   * @throws NullPointerException if message reference is null
   */
  //def apply(message: String, payload: Any): Unit
}